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Mechanisms of the Hue and Cry in Kolozsvár in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century

Mechanisms of the Hue and Cry in Kolozsvár in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This essay looks at a voluntary form of law enforcement based on trial records of late sixteenth-century Kolozsvár. It reconstructs mechanisms of hue and cry to show how social processes of control touched on culture and bore on the articulation of public and private domains in the early modern town. In witnesses' depositions hue and cry emerges as a customary practice with agents who could equally engage public opinion on behalf of victims against law-breakers, or make the system fail, and turn against the denouncer. Special attention is paid to the ways the town's landscape and soundscape interacted with raising the hue and cry. People's moves in response to the outcry effaced the usual divide between in and out, between domestic space and street, so with hue and cry, street and house, normally distinct, merged in ways otherwise abnormal.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Early Modern History Brill

Mechanisms of the Hue and Cry in Kolozsvár in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century

Bálint, Emese
Journal of Early Modern History , Volume 12 (3-4): 233 – Jan 1, 2008
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Brill
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1385-3783
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1570-0658
DOI
10.1163/157006508X369875
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This essay looks at a voluntary form of law enforcement based on trial records of late sixteenth-century Kolozsvár. It reconstructs mechanisms of hue and cry to show how social processes of control touched on culture and bore on the articulation of public and private domains in the early modern town. In witnesses' depositions hue and cry emerges as a customary practice with agents who could equally engage public opinion on behalf of victims against law-breakers, or make the system fail, and turn against the denouncer. Special attention is paid to the ways the town's landscape and soundscape interacted with raising the hue and cry. People's moves in response to the outcry effaced the usual divide between in and out, between domestic space and street, so with hue and cry, street and house, normally distinct, merged in ways otherwise abnormal.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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Journal of Early Modern History – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: LAW ENFORCEMENT; PUBLIC AND PRIVATE; ORDER; STREET BEHAVIOR

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